Word: pilfered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similarity between this plot and hard-boiled Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is great but not suspicious. Ida A. R. Wylie, author of Children of Storm, The Mad Busman, has literary stature, would never stoop to pilfer...
...name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant...
...invalid should pilfer...
...score had it not been for the loose fielding of his team mates. His battery mate, DeRham, celebrated his debut on the University nine by netting three hits in four times at bat, one of these a long home run into right field. He caught one man attempting to pilfer second base, and played an excellent game behind...
...There are no courses of study. There is much manual training, but also a supply of the R. R. R.'s. A child studies just what he pleases and in just as advanced degree as he is capable. Those who desire only a manual education are tempted to pilfer intellectual learning. Mental horsemanship is stimulated by horse-stealing rather than by gift horses. The pupils maintain their own discipline - they take two months' vacation each year at their own convenience-in Winter or Summer as they prefer. This plan keeps school equipment in continuous use. Coupled with this...